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"Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place."
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"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
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"We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be."
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"Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time."
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"Thomas Builds-the-Fire's stories climbed into your clothes like sad, gave you itches that could not be scratched. If you repeated eve a sentence from one of those stories, your throat was never the same again. Those stories hung in your clothes and hair like smoke, and no amount of laundry soap or shampoo washed them out. Victor and Junior often tried to beat those stories out of Thomas, tied him down and taped his mouth shut. They pretended to be friendly and tried to sweet talk Thomas into temporary silences, made promises about beautiful Indian women and cases of Diet Pepsi. But none of that stopped Thomas, who talked and talked."
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"Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only way to stop the story from running away under its own momentum, often towards an ending no one wants."
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"Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on."
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"IF I can do it and you can do it, if I have a story and you have story."
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"People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales."
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"My life is my book, but I can't read it."
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"The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims."
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"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."
Writing
"He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."
Wisdom
"Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore."
Life
"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."
War
"You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else."
Reflection
"There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there."
Existence
"The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the women stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world."
Mortality
"Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact."
Spiritual
"I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all."
Philosophy
"This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up."
Perseverance
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